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Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.15 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 2d7e95c4-17bc-4328-9ad0-b3ef1ed1642e X-Archives-Hash: cde2db994dc494a622e71f775c81b29e Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:05:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> Given how I plan to use this drive, that should last a long time.  I'm >> just putting the OS stuff on the drive and I compile on a spinning rust >> drive and use -k to install the built packages on the live system.  That >> should help minimize the writes. > Well, 300 TB over 5 years is 60 TB per year, or 165 GB per day. Every day. > I’d say don’t worry. Besides: endurance tests showed that SSDs were able to > withstand multiples of their guaranteed TBW until they actually failed (of > course there are always exceptions to the rule). > >> I read about that bytes written.  With the way you explained it, it >> confirms what I was thinking it meant.  That's a lot of data.  I >> currently have around 100TBs of drives lurking about, either in my rig >> or for backups.  I'd have to write three times that amount of data on >> that little drive.  That's a LOT of data for a 500GB drive.  > If you use ext4, run `dumpe2fs -h /dev/your-root-partition | grep Lifetime` > to see how much data has been written to that partition since you formatted > it. Just to get an idea of what you are looking at on your setup. > I skipped the grep part and looked at the whole output.  I don't recall ever seeing that command before so I wanted to see what it did.  Dang, lots of info.  Filesystem created:       Sun Apr 15 03:24:56 2012 Lifetime writes:          993 GB That's for the main / partition.  I have /usr on it's own partition tho.  Filesystem created:       Sun Apr 15 03:25:48 2012 Lifetime writes:          1063 GB I'd think that / and /usr would be the most changed parts of the OS.  After all, /bin and /sbin are on / too as is /lib*.  If that is even remotely correct, both would only be around 2TBs.  That dang thing may outlive me even if I don't try to minimize writes.  ROFLMBO Now that says a lot.  Really nice info.  Thanks. Dale :-)  :-)